Meryl Streep Quotes

I separated myself in Prada because I didn't want to have fun. They were all having a lot of fun - Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci - and they were a little coterie of laughs.

It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body.

I would never say don't do acting [to my kids], because I think it is a glorious profession and I am so thankful for everything it has let me express.

I have four to five months, tops!, per year to give to my acting work.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

People have to make their own decisions about their lives.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid.

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics.

That consciousness of quality, and the need to demand it can galvanize your energies, not just in your work, but in a rigorous exercise of mind and heart in every aspect of your life.

I don't have a favorite director just like I don't have a favorite color or I don't have a favorite food. I like everything.

You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.

I don't have time to read a lot. And when I do, I read things that have just the facts.

I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.

I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over.

Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done.

Teachers perform major miracles in America, daily.

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up.

When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself.

She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Well my favorite is really really sharp, extra sharp, aged cheddar cheese.

To imagine myself in different ways comes from my beginnings in the theatre. People are more accepting when you go 'apparently', 'wildly' afield from who you are or where you were brought up.

I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

I found it unbearable when I allow the song to meet the music, to allow the story to meet the music.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.

I'm thrilled when I get nominated. I don't count how many and I don't remember how many I've had. I just know it's a lot.

I never thought I was somebody that would be on the cover of magazines in fashions, wearing fashions. It's like not me. But that is what movie stardom entails.

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt... It's not the shoes' fault; they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet. I've got my mother's feet.

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

You win an Oscar, it can double the audience that you had before.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

Some people hold themselves above the fashion business but are still complicit and fall prey to it.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

I love Goodfellows and I love Nick Palleggi, but no, it's The Godfather, 1 and 2.

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.

The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!!

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.